Carnitas are a pork product that is sort of a salty, orange-y, pulled apart product. Today, we want to recreate that with a jackfruit based protein. I have to say this is a more involved recipe just because it has a few components. You could make it much easier by leaving any off or buying arepas pre-made. I wanted a fully homemade dish with arepas made from scratch (cuz they're yummmm). We start with a homemade arepa. The arepa is made from masa repa. This is different than cornmeal. It is like cornmeal that are used to make tortillas. Arepas, though, are made from a pre-cooked ground corn that makes the arepa fluffy. This recipe is super easy to make at home. From there, we are gonna smother that in carnitas from jackfruit, lime cooked corn, avocado slices, and a delicious roasted poblano tahini sauce that rounds the flavor like WA BAM! These carnitas are juicy because we cook them down in a orange and vegetable broth so they are packed full of flavor. The lime corn adds a great bite and acid, and the poblano sauce takes the flavors to the next frikin level.
